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Magistrates: Manpower

Volume 487: debated on Monday 2 February 2009

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Mr. Grieve

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many sitting magistrates there were in each of the last five years. (252505)

Mr. Straw

The following figures show numbers of active magistrates at each financial year ending 31 March:

Number

2008

29,419

2007

29,816

2006

28,865

2005

28,300

2004

28,029